Jack Thompson
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — Aug 31 1940
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Thompson, AM (born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at the University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films including such classics as Wake in Fright (1971), Sunday Too Far Away (1975), The Man from Snowy River (1982) and Breaker Morant (1980). He won Cannes and A…
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Jack Thompson's Credits
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The Great Gatsby
Dr. Walter Perkins
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Cliegg Lars
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
Faraway Downs
Kipling Flynn
The Evil Touch
Original Sin
Alan Jordan
Australia
Kipling Flynn
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Hicksley
Sam Pang Tonight
Self
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Sonny Seiler
Riptide
Ted
Spyforce
Broken Arrow
Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff
Short Circuit
Party Guest
The Light Between Oceans
Ralph Addicott
A Far Off Place
John Ricketts
Devil's Playground
Cardinal Neville
A Woman of Independent Means
Sam Garner
On The Ropes
Strick
Last Dance
The Governor
The Good German
Congressman Breimer
The Last Frontier
Nick Stenning
Leatherheads
Harvey
Flesh + Blood
Hawkwood
Poker Face
Shaman Bill (Paje)
Runt
Earl Robert-Barren
The Man from Snowy River
Clancy
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Harris
December Boys
Bandy
Not Quite Hollywood
Self
Man-Thing
Schist
Excess Baggage
Alexander
Swinging Safari
Mayor
Burke & Wills
Robert O'Hara Burke
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Jack Jones
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
Wind
Jack Neville
The Dwelling Place
Richard
Ruby Cairo
Ed
Wake in Fright
Dick
Bastard Boys
Breaker Morant
Major J.F. Thomas
South Pacific
Captain George Brackett
Feed
Richard
My Brother Jack
Bernard Brewster
Mystery Road
Charlie Murray
High Ground
Moran
The Earthling
Ross Daley
Breaking Up
Crew
Mad Dog Morgan
Detective Manwaring
Resistance
Mr Wilson
The Club
Laurie Holden
The Sum of Us
Harry Mitchell
Around the Block
Mr. O'Donnell
Kojak: The Price of Justice
Aubrey Dubose
Blinder
Charlie "Chang" Hyde
Don't Tell
Bob Myers
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Rev. Neville
Turtle Beach
Ralph
Libido
The Letter
Robert Crosbie
A Woman Called Golda
Ariel
Scobie Malone
Scobie Malone
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Tom Campbell Black
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
The Judge
Ground Zero
Trebilcock
Yolngu Boy
Policeman
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Self
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Self
Bad Blood
Stan Graham
The Riddle of the Stinson
Bernard O'Reilly
Whaledreamers
Narrator (voice)
The Journalist
Simon Morris
The Magic Pudding
Buncle (voice)
Never Too Late
Angus Wilson
Mao’s Last Dancer
US Federal Judge
Ruben Guthrie
Peter Guthrie
Waterfront
Maxey Woodbury
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Narrator (voice)
Caddie
Ted
Oyster Farmer
Skippy
Jock Petersen
Tony Petersen
Tully
Vic Parkes
Ten Empty
Bobby Thompson
The Telegram Man
Bill Williams
Blue World Order
Harris
McLeod's Daughters
Jack McLeod
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
Stuart Irving
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
Harry
Home
Trouble in Paradise
Jake
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
Self
Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing
That Lady from Peking
Flunky
Sunday Too Far Away
Foley
Flight of the Albatross
Mike
My Name Is Gulpilil
Self
Blood on the Coal
Narrator
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
Narrator
One Heart: One Spirit
Himself
Oakie's Outback Adventures
Orpheus
Because He's My Friend
Geoff
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
Narrator
Where Dead Men Lie
Commentator (voice)